Pakistan may not frighten India as much as it would like.
Does Pakistan’s National Pride Hinge on India Considering It a Threat?
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War & Peace
U.S. Guilt Over Rwanda Will Only Lead to More Guilt
Sympathy for a state’s past should not color current policy.
The Pentagon Is Ripe for Reduction
Here we are on brink of a major historical moment. We’re beginning to wind down the longest period of war in our history. And we’re about to turn around a 13-year-long surge in Pentagon spending. It’s not just longtime advocates for such changes like me who think so.
The Cost of Occupying Planet Earth
How much does the United States spend each year occupying the planet with its bases and troops? Forced by Congress to account for its spending overseas, the Pentagon has put that figure at $22.1 billion a year. It turns out that even a conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes to an annual total of about $170 billion–or maybe even more.
Y-12 Activists May Be Barred From Bringing up the Morality of Nukes at Their Trial
Transform Now Plowshares Three’s efforts were initially devalued because the only kind of soul searching resulting from their actions was about plant security, not the morality of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Weapons Laboratories National in Name Only
Nuclear weapons have become synonymous with big business.
We’re Not Broke
These revenue-raisers and spending cuts would narrow the federal budget deficit by $881 billion per year, nearly eliminating it altogether.
Enrique Pena Nieto and Mexico’s Drug War Opening
On December 1, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) assumed the Mexican presidency amid a flurry of protests against the party, whose previous 70-year rule defined the country’s authoritarian past. Yet it’s difficult to imagine that the new president’s term could be worse than the unmitigated disaster of his predecessor’s, which was marked by a dramatic militarization of Mexico’s drug war, widespread human rights abuses, and tens of thousands of deaths.
The U.S. and Central & South Asia: Four More Years
It is time to bring the 21st century’s version of “the Great Game” to an end.
Hamas Helped, Israel Handicapped by Threats to Their Respective Publics
Fundamental differences exists between Hamas in Gaza in 2012 compared to 2008.